Thanks! I see some switching glps because of no longer being effective after months on tirz
Surgery doesn't really do anything for appetite, which is why most people "eat their way around a sleeve" and gain weight eventually. You are physically restricted from eating a lot of food. They say your stomach produces less Ghrelin so you're not as hungry, but I'm not sure if that's real or voodoo science.
154 lb is fantastic! What dosage are you taking right now? I'm about 35 lbs above my goal weight, and going through an extremely extremely stressful time, so I'm afraid I'm just going to keep packing the weight on!
Very good to know about the four month thing! I feel like that's the same kind of advice they give you when you have bariatric surgery is to basically work super hard to lose the weight while you still have the extreme restriction.
It sounds like you've had a heck of a ride with weight loss and trying to keep it off! I'm only at about a 35 lb regain, but it's been steadily increasing. The last thing I want is to have to take off all of my original weight and then some, so my heart goes out to you. I'm really glad that you're having such good success on tirz though. It gives me a lot of hope for myself.
Wow! Your story is incredible, and I think it does a very good job of outlining what it's like to be a food addict. I tell people I am obsessed with food, and they giggle, but I don't think they understand what it means. I am very excited about the possibility of getting rid of the food noise. Bariatric surgery got me from 255 to 140ish but not without a lot of misery and finding ways to game the surgery and eat around the restriction and malabsorption. Which is why I am back up to 175 and climbing. Thank you for sharing, and I am excited to start Tirz tomorrow. I hope I have similar results as you.
I think that that is helpful information, for anybody that is reading this and may be in a similar situation. I know for myself that I would have liked to have taken action before I regained 35 lb. And if I had been listening to what was going on and done some research, I could have saved myself from this regain, the embarrassment, and now having to take it back off. It sounds like you are going to be very successful between the two choices, and I wish you the very best of luck!
Bypass in 2021. Went from 303 to 193.
I will take my 4th dose at 2.5 mg on Friday (bought compound before I went grey). I have definitely found this to be a superior tool so far because it helps address the mind part of food addiction. I hope you feel this too ❤️. It’s a serious game changer.
Your description of how the food noise used to control your life and now you’ve taken back control is perfect. Spot on!
I wish you the best of luck combating two addictions instead of just one. I don't think that transference addiction is discussed enough before people undergo bariatric surgery, unfortunately. One of my friends is on tirz, and it has curbed her drinking immensely. (I believe she's at 10mg), so hopefully, you'll get that same effect soon. I feel for you. Keep doing what you gotta do to get to where you wanna go!
Surgery did zilch for my food noise and appetite. Other than physically restricting the amount of food I could eat (literally only a couple of tablespoons in the beginning), the constant screaming in my brain for consuming more food never went away. Just needing to taste it even. It's been over 24 years since I had my surgery but I still remember when I physically could not eat the food due to the pain it would cause with the small pouch, but I would chew food just to feel like I was eating, and then spit out. Gross, I know, but that's what I did.
That really is a mind blowing experience isn't it. I remember reading about this before I tried it but one can't fully appreciate it until they experience it. I didn't even know I had it until it was gone which was within 24 hours of first injection.
It's not stressed enough that 15-20% of bypass patients will end up dependent on alcohol. That's a huge number. I'm always torn about whether I'm glad I did the surgery because I'm still down 90 pounds but I have this other struggle now. In some ways if these meds continue to evolve, hopefully these surgeries will become more of a last resort/ a thing of the past
I agree with you that it sucks bad that people who desperately need the medication don't have access to them. It seems extremely unfair. I have had to administer ridiculous amounts of Suboxone and methadone to addicts, but we don't provide the same level of care and access to food addicts. I am not sure why the topic of food addiction is not taken seriously or a dress like it is with other addictions.
Wow! I'm glad to hear that you had such good results in such a short period of time! It's also interesting to hear about the different ways it works for different people. I do wonder how it's going to work for me, as I kept my duodenum, but I lost most of my stomach and a lot of my small intestines. Of course, it doesn't bother me to be full or not. I'll just eat anyway. The only exception that is when I took Phentermine, and I had to stop it because I couldn't even manage to drink a protein shake because the act of swallowing it made me want a vomit, and my life depends on my ability to consume vitamins and protein.
I hear you. I have the same debate with myself, because I have seriously complicated my future by having bariatric surgery. Like I don't have normal poops. And I am so reliant on protein and vitamins to make sure that I can keep myself alive. If we had an apocalypse, I would probably die because I wouldn't have access to calcium, magnesium, vitamin d, vitamin a, vitamin k, etc. But then also the surgery is what gave me my life back. So yes, it's definitely a double-edged sword. I was wondering the same thing if this stuff will put bariatric surgery on the back of burner. Obviously, it's a choice of last resort to begin with, and if there was any other choice when I had it, I would have made it. Here's to hoping!
You are in no way a failure. This is a chronic disease that turns our brain/body against us in ways non-suffers really cannot understand.
Thank you for reminding me to be kind and patient with myself while I work my way through this process. I took my first injection this morning, and I am very excited about the possibilities!
on several forums around the internet, i am shocked at how many people started around the july timeframe. many with a compounded pharmacy, now some of those switching to powder. i'm on exactly the same path.
June/July is when the early adopters of compounding first started to show a lot of weight loss and posted all about it on social media and it was a snowball effect.
i'm assuming mostly on tiktok? (i don't have it)
I hate it for all of us when we have regain. It's so frustrating and discouraging, but I am really enjoying reading about the success everyone has had on tirz. I am grateful and thankful we have an opportunity to utilize it. Congratulations on the loss so far!
I didn’t even know that compounding was a thing for this medication until my PCP mentioned it. I have an awesome PCP who said he had other patients doing really well on it. He sent a script directly to Empower Pharmacy in Texas. Less than a week later, I had my meds and started.
that was my surgeon too! I did great at first when I got my sleeve but I eventually put about 40-60 lbs back on. I feel like since starting Tirz my pouch is back to a pouch ... its kinda weird ... I used to be able to eat a whole sandwhich or a whole slice of pizza and now I can't. also at my lowest with the sleeve I was 123 and now with the tirz I made it to 119.
🙋VSG club member here. I lost 90 pounds with VSG, stopped losing 40-50 pounds away from where I hoped to get. I had two goal weights, the statistically realistic goal (which I reached) and my dream goal, which I am now aiming for with the help of Tirz.
